Sometimes, fraudsters can attempt shady things – like taking out a mortgage against your property, even though they don’t own it – and you won’t find out until it’s already turned into a huge problem.

Not anymore! The Land Registry has announced a free alerts service to tip you off as soon as any attempts are made to alter the register or make official searches. They’ll email you as soon as something happens, and you can quickly alert your solicitor if it’s not activity you were aware of.

It’s a 5-minute task to register and add your properties’ details, so go do it now!

(Thank you to Mark Morris (again!) for the recommendation.)

How to listen

Subscribe in your favourite podcast app to get every episode automatically sent to your phone.